incompetent to run this country

[scorpious123]

every day i read the news papers and i read about 24 hour drinking back fired on labour, pensions, tax credits,crime,exspenses in parliment fraud,asylum,and labour allowed the rest of the world to come from abroad and live and work here when every other country in europe signed a fixed quota and many more things etc i think they are incompetent to run this country it just seems that since they have come to power this country has gone upside down whot do you think

[sp1814]

scorpious123

Unfortunately, when the Conservatives get back in (and eventually they will), you'll see what the real meaning of incompetence is.

Labour have generally fumbled the ball over the past five years, but I remember the horrors of the Major government, and believe me...you do not want to go back there.

They were literally rubbish.

[scorpious123]

all goverments are bad but i dnt remeber it this bad over the last 25 years

[maxi2]

Anything will be better than this bunch of incompetent and duplicitous *******.

[persianlady]

I agree that this country seems to be heading for the abyss, regarding immigration, pensions, the NHS etc. But be careful what you wish for... I can remember vividly what things were like when the tories were in power. Mortgages at 16%, having to emigrate because my husband who is a skilled engineer was made redundant and was out of work for 12 months, policemen beating up the miners. i have to say that Gordon Brown is a complete wimp. What a disappointment! Give me Tony Blair anyday. He at least had a bit of charisma. I might upset a few people here, but I think he was a great PM.

[Ice.Maiden]

Can't see the next lot - whoever they might be - being any better than what we've been lumbered with already. I think it's the ridiculous laws which upset a lot of people. I really can't understand how so-called intelligent people, deemed capable of running a country, can come up with the hare-brained ideas that they do. We need some ordinary people in power, not rejects from public schools who've no common sense.

[sp1814]

I have a theory - in general, Governments don't change countries.

They hang on by the skin of their teeth mostly. There are a million different things over which they have little or no control, and because there are very few 'conviction politicians' left, all we have to choose from now is a different set of management consultants.

Cameron, Brown (and excuse me, but I've completely drawn a blank on who's leader of the Lib Dems this week) do not strike me in the same way that Tony Benn, Thatcher, Kinnock or John Smith did.

They had principles which guided their politics...not the other way around.

[Oneeyedvic]

Unfortunately, any government that is going to change the country has the might of the civil service to deal with.

Watch 'Yes Minister'.

A candidate going to parliament is completely at the mercy of the advice he gets from the civil service - and the spin they put on things.

[vehelpfulguy]

>I might upset a few people here, but I think he was a great PM.

But what did he actually DO in his time in office.

He SAID he was going to do all sorts of things, he told us OVER and OVER again how he was going to sort out the NHS, education, immigration, crime, graffitti, and so on.

But what did he actually do ?

Oh yeh, he took us into a war with Iraq based on incorrect evidence, which has cost this country billions of pounds and many british soldiers lives.

Apart from that I cant think of anything else.

[ruby27]

On the whole, taking all issues into consideration I am very happy living in this country and more satisfied than when the Conservatives were in power.

This current adminstration is far from perfect, but not as incompetent or corrupt in my opinion as you would have us believe

[mike1222]

When are people in this country going to realise that all politicians of all parties are only in politics for their own benefit - they are ALL like pigs with their snouts in the trough, and most of them are corrupt, ie fiddling expenses, taking "bungs" etc - and who votes for these parasites and puts them in this position? You, the great, gullible British electorate!

[Hugh Spencer]

Beware! As we get closer to the next general election political parties will offer the public great promises if they get elected. Certain sections of the community will fall for these and vote in another Labour government. Then, as time goes on, we will discover that the new ideas haven't been thought through so they can't be implemented or they don' t work! It is happening even as I type this and it has been happening for years. I agree, 99% of the politicians are there for their careers - I don't think anyone who wants to be otherwise would survive in government.

[andrea81]

To coin a phrase:

"You can't please all of the people all of the time!"

Any Government will have it's weaknesess, all we can hope is that the mistakes form the last are learned!

Perfect world it is not!

[Hugh Spencer]

What the present government is doing is not making accidental mistakes, they are blatantly abusing their power to featherbed their careers and misusing money which results in nothing being shown for the millions they are wasting. Watch what is offered to large groups of the population by both parties on the run up to the next general election!